Viral quip: xAI was created to stop Anthropic, which was created to stop OpenAI
iamtrask · x · 2026-09-10
A widely shared quip mocks the nested safety rationale of AI labs: OpenAI was founded to counter Google, Anthropic to counter OpenAI, and xAI to counter Anthropic — while Google, the original threat, likely would never build ASI for fear of cannibalizing its search ads revenue. The joke resonates as commentary on the mismatch between AI safety narratives and commercial incentives.
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